What software can I use to just simply play sounds on the PC using this MIDI Controller? What software (FREE preferably) can I use to just simply play sounds through the PC using this as a basic MIDI Controller/Keyboard?
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You could also download Ableton Live and use the trial version. Unfortunately, the trial version does not allow saving, and it's a big download size, but it's a very powerful application.
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if you want a program like Serato/ Virtual DJ you can slave it to it and drop samples and beats it is just a MIDI controller it don't really have any sound it just takes anything that you put into it
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No this is a midi controller. this unit need to be plugged into a computer via usb port used with software. So no it can not be played without software
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Yeah, it's a midi controller, it does the same thing as a midi controller keyboard. I use it with Reason and Logic, it's pretty amazing.
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I have a PC and it worked with my Finale software once I switched the setting on the software to MIDI input.
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No software accompanies this controller. Most music software you buy these days is able to be controlled via MIDI by this device. It's a generic controller.
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It's not a keyboard, it's a midi controller. You need a PC/Mac with speakers + software to use this.
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Any soft with MIDI compare (cubase. logic. etc)Its mean you can use it not only with computer soft if you have MIDI connection and great desire to explore:)
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you can play midi files from a usb flash, but they have to be midi format 0, you can load midi format 1 files and write them to one of the internal songs and then play them
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It's a midi controller, so you use it to control sounds you have downloaded on your computer through a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) like FL Studio, Ableton, Cubase. Depending on what you have, you can play any sound with it, but the keyboard itself doesn't have any data for instruments on it. I recommend researching VSTs for different instruments you would like to play. Enjoy! :)
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I have maschine as well any usb midi will work, I run my Maschine through cubase 7.5 so have control via cubase maybe give native instruments a call they are very helpfull !!
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Are you using the USB cable it came with? I had to get a separate midi cable, which I plugged into my sound card and it works just fine.
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it's a hardware sampler, meaning it doesn't use midi to control any sounds, it has it's own sounds. you could record into reason (or any DAW, I use Fl) using an interface.
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nah just plug your midi device into a usb port on your computer. should be plug and play.
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What DAW or dj software does he use? That midi controller is pretty much overall. It really depends the use.
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The interesting thing about this is that it's not actually an Instrument, it's just a controller. You have to connect it to your computer, and the Maschine software (or some other DAW) has to be running it. Then you have to use the audio outputs on your computer to connect it to your speakers.
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The M Audio Keystation is a Midi Controller, which means it preforms just as a controller would. There are no programed sounds and you need to connect it to a computer.